Anne-Claire Petit
Anne-Claire Petit was born in Breda in 1962 and studied industrial design at the prestigious Academy of Eindhoven, where she specialized in textile design; his great passion for craftsmanship was born at the Academy especially in some disciplines such as printing, weaving and crochet. His current style and collections still reflect his love for the traditional craftsmanship.
After finishing her studies Anne Claire Petit begins her career in 1986 as a designer for Esprit, where she will stop for four years of intense knowledge and experience thanks to the international fame of the brand; in parallel, the designer begins to caress the idea of a reality of her own where high-level craftsmanship can be at the service of her creativity.
In 1990 he therefore decided to inaugurate his collection and his company, which he would simply call Anne-Claire Petit, immediately becoming very famous and known for his shawls and other small fashion accessories. Unbridled creativity led her to new products and techniques and to a growing collection, initially concentrated solely on the world of fashion.
In 2002 Anne-Claire chose to shift her attention to a collection for children and for the home: without the seasonal cycle of fashion, she feels free to create and translate her love for color and natural materials into a wide range of items.
His is a colorful world dedicated to children, made entirely by hand in crochet: a zoo of funny and ironic animals, protagonists of a surreal fairy tale: rabbits, reindeers, frogs, ladybugs, puppies, cats, bears, zebras, monkeys, squirrels … all in natural colors or in bright contrasting shades.
From the outset it is clear that these objects, born for children, become an original, ironic and refined accessory for the home and for adults; animals can become cushions to play down a too rigorous sofa or small sculptures to be distributed in the different rooms, to lighten too austere houses.
The collection therefore becomes more structured and dedicated to the home in its entirety, with the addition of new accessories such as cushions, blankets, stools, chairs, tables … playful and colorful, always entirely handmade by crochet; at the same time the animals become bigger and bigger, sometimes very big, to cheer up a house as a real artistic installation.
In addition to the permanent collections, enriched every year with new subjects, the designer begins the creation of limited editions, such as the series of giant fruit and vegetables to be placed on sofas, armchairs and beds or simply on the floor: strawberries that color a traditional sofa in leather, red apples that cheer up old armchairs, aubergines resting on a grandmother’s bed, giant pineapples to be placed on the floor near the front door … all the designer’s imagination writes a fairy tale where the house becomes an ideal stage. The frivolous and playful appearance of these objects hides a great seriousness in the design and a very high quality level in the realization.
Currently Anne-Claire Petit has ceased the creation of the permanent collection to focus on specific projects on request; continues to collaborate with Ferrero1947 in the creation of limited editions, special collections and unique projects that are always colorful and fun: an added value that transforms these apparently playful objects into collectible design specimens.